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- Benefits seen for high-risk women in ovary removal
- Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500 - All the women were cancer-free at the start. No breast cancers were seen in the women who had their breasts removed. She has known for nine years that she carries a breast cancer gene mutation.
- Time to get your flu shot, but just one this year
- Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500 - It also can kill healthy pregnant women and 30-somethings. Obviously that won't cover the entire population, but the CDC knows its near-universal vaccination policy won't spark a stampede for shots. Before last year, flu vaccine was recommended for 85 percent of Americans but only about a third got vaccinated.
- Years Later, No Magic Bullet Against Alzheimers Disease
- Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500 - Observational studies are useful in generating hypotheses but are not proof. A 12-year study asked participants about their use of cholesterol-lowering statins at the start of the study but never did again. Schoux had been an athlete all his life, he ate a healthy diet, he was friendly and outgoing.
- Rectal cancer rates increase in people under 40, researchers say
- Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500 - But colon cancer incidence remained flat over time, while rectal cancer grew from 1985 onward. Anal cancers linked to such sex are typically caused by the human papillomavirus, which is common in the gay community.
- Study shows value of quality-of-life cancer care
- Wed, 18 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500 - Patients like this typically live less than a year after diagnosis, said study leader Dr. R. Sean Morrison, president of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and a doctor at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. Dr. Amy Kelley and Diane Meier of Mount Sinai wrote in an editorial in the journal. The American Society of Clinical Oncology and two cancer charities paid for the study.
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